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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...Economics, raises some challenging questions for science educators. What contributions to science have been made by those outside the ‘Western world’? Why should school science reflect the subject's diverse roots? How can you bring contemporary international science alive for your students? Can learning science from a global perspective motivate students and so raise...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...economic opportunities for Black women. Once the straightened hair was exposed to moisture, however, it would revert to its original condition. In 1906 George. E. Johnson’s chemical sodium chloride straightener, also known as a ‘relaxer’, was promoted as a less damaging hair product and a more permanent style condition. During the late 1800s and 1900 advertisements...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...economic changes, bringing with them more, and different, employment opportunities; increases in educational opportunities for girls; and the re-emergence of feminism in the 1960s as, along with other disadvantaged or marginalised groups, women were becoming more powerful and gained a voice. All these factors are interrelated, though different social scientists emphasise...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...economical. Failure to follow consumers’ changing media preferences can be expensive. 1980s America saw a boom in cable TV audiences while advertisers, locked in their existing patterns of expenditure, continued to chase them on the big networks. The results were spiralling advertising costs in search of diminishing network audiences. Advertisers who made an early...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...Economic and political crises can shape policy as much as the fine ideas of energetic practitioners and innovative research by academics. In England and Wales, new ideas and new priorities have emerged and children, rather than offenders, have come back into the picture. Wales, as a distinct constitutional entity, can justifiably claim to have drawn much of that picture...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...economic growth. Social development occurs where people of communities have increased autonomy and self-determination, allowing them to more effectively represent their interests and act on their authority. Empowerment of people occurs when a group believed to have been discriminated against achieve equal status and/or just treatment. Liberation of people occurs when...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...economics than to the realities of fifteenth-century craft practices. In practice, it meant that indigenous craftsmen enjoyed preferential membership rates, but in many artistic centres foreign craftsmen were clearly also welcomed so long as their work reflected favourably on the reputation of the guild. The higher dues a foreigner had to pay were arguably a way of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...economic and political reforms (Bartlett, 2010). In addition to this groundswell of patriotic sentiment, more radical ideas were also emerging. In 1791 the Society of United Irishmen was established in Belfast and branches soon appeared elsewhere in Ireland too. At the outset, membership of the organisation was predominantly Protestant, but increasing numbers of Catholics...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs